SOME BRITISH SPECIES OF (@NANTHE. 237 
be considered rather as marked a than as true species.” 
Watson’s remark (Compend — t. 78) seems the fittest 
i e :— The 
general botanist is not ilinienaie: ne the = cise knowledge 
of the local botanist is not sufficiently comprehensive.” 
In the 8th ed. of Hooker & Arnott’s Br itish srs (1860) we 
have (. ~okatense seme L., G. Lachenalii Gmel., and (. silaifolia 
t 
panes he last with the synonym “ (. pracedanifelia Sibth. (non 
Poll.).” i ehneien’s Maal 8th ed. (1881), the last _ 
stands as (L. silaifolia Bieb. ? ieeoey 8 Student? s Flora, ed. 
(1884), it is styled dz. peveedanfi (Poll.). 
Nyman (Sylloge, 1854, p. 155) gives our English ee under 
“* (, peucedanifolia Poll.”’; and in his Conspectus, p. 298 (1879), he 
places the English and Irish plant under the same name. 
The object of this note is to put on record the opinions of two 
excellent cgerr nat a this — plant, as represented by the 
series sent them consisting of examples grown in my garden from 
Surrey see pio the pla _ an the seed-leaves to the per- 
fectly ripe a and the decayed winter state. 
wrote on eS 7, 1889 :—‘*I have examined your 
QE, silaifolia, oie could not find any stable differences from the 
fferent European countries. Generally “ continental plant has 
shorter and a little broader leaflets, but some garden specimens 
one the rest is identical, however, the fruit “te td ics I never 
w so broad and with such broad prominent ribs as yours hay 
But in breadth and Senge the parts ee reond a good deal, but the 
Schumann, of the Berlin Herbarium, wrote on March 
Oth last :—‘‘ Regarding the secre plant, I ae agree 
with your eos a after having carefully examined it, I ¢ 
find no difference fro m Ginanthe sai M. B., of which we have 
a type hens ecer sath us by 
As regards the sca plans ot on ho named by our botanists, 
I find that sige are rarely n ixed (by names) one with the 
other. As to their ainecenty: “ inive had * three Portes vo 
many yea i At the time I write (March 11th), silaifolia 
abundance of radical leaves, nihile: ab renames has made no Pa 
of appearing, and does not usually do so until the end of the 
month. chena i 
appearing, grow strictly upright from the ground, only inclining as 
they grow older; in pimpinelloides, sie ore directly they have 
pushed through the ground, to spread by a very peculiar gyrate 
wth, the apex of the leaves representing the spokes of a wheel, 
with the leaf-segments very close together, and pressed close to the 
ground. They only resemble the detached leat i in English Botany, 
t, 594 (ed. 3), after some weeks, 
